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insomniasexx  ·  4062 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How the web works.

Yeah it's SEO. Back links on sites help increase your google ranking. There is a PR (page ranking) number system for reputable to non reputable sites and each of these have an affect on your overall ranking on Google. If it's a really shit site that solely exists for backlinks it will actually hurt your ranking.

My company actually got blacklisted from Google for a bit because they paid a Russian to throw up over 2000 backlinks on spam sites a few years back. Whoops.